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Wednesday, 25 February 2015

No two flowers are the same, the fold of the ribbon making each flower unique in its own right and also painting them makes them different by adding light or dark shades wherever you want making the whole picture unique to the creator.

I love black backgrounds, I think it brings out the colours so much more than white,

I've used black many times in cross stitch and the results were always beautiful.

Sunday, 8 February 2015

This week I've been practising my silk ribbon flowers, I didn't want to go rushing in to make a picture before I know what I'm doing so I thought it best to make some crazy patchwork blocks to practise on, it seemed a shame to do some practise flowers and then throw them away! and silk ribbon is pretty expensive!

So the blocks are ideal, although I've never done this before either

LOL

I'm learning two things here, how to do crazy patchwork and silk ribbon embroidery!

The roses I didn't make but the lavender and daisy are my first practise pieces

and I get to keep them :)

I added lots of bits and pieces, buttons and bows as crazy patchwork is anything goes :)